A polling firm recently asked 1,000 adults what subject they wish they had taken more of in school. The most popular answer: foreign languages. “We are the only industrialized nation that routinely graduates students from high school with knowledge of only one language,” said Marty Abbott, director of education at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

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